Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture

NOV 2008

Local

Williamsburg writer and activist Jennifer Baumgardner likes to discuss things that others shy away from. Her last book, Look Both Ways (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007) addressed bisexuality. Her latest, Abortion & Life, came out in September of this year from Akashic Books.

Local

Between January and July 2008, a series of more than a dozen burglaries targeting neighborhood restaurants and businesses angered and frightened owners. The perpetrator broke in late at night, usually through rear entrances not visible from the street.

Local

Brooklyn native Mark Winston Griffith has been a community activist in Central Brooklyn since the early 1990s. Among other projects, he helped launch the Central Brooklyn Credit Union and the Central Brooklyn Partnership; and from 2005 to 2007, he was the co-director of the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project.

Local

For ten years Marge Oehler has commuted by express bus from Woodhaven, Queens to her secretarial job in the Financial District. Waiting for the bus on Atlantic Ave. at 8:40 on a recent Wednesday morning, she realized something strange was afoot.